Mascot is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,760 people and just one neighborhood, Mascot is the 182nd largest community in Tennessee. Much of the housing stock in Mascot was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Mascot economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Mascot, where the median household income is $60,250.00.
Unlike some towns, Mascot isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mascot are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mascot is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mascot who work in healthcare (16.41%), sales jobs (15.62%), and office and administrative support (11.93%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Mascot has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Mascot has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mascot than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mascot may be for you.
Mascot is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Mascot with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.62% of adults in Mascot have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mascot in 2022 was $29,276, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,104 for a family of four. However, Mascot contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mascot is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mascot home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mascot residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Mascot also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.83% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mascot include Irish, English, German, Dutch, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Mascot is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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The neighbors in the neighborhood in Mascot are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 29.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.8%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Mascot, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report German roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.1%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (8.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.